You should be thankful that you're doing well in my calculus class. Or maybe I should be thankful that my calculus class is packed with hard-working over-achieving freshmen. Looks like I may be on target to have an 80% success rate. I think that I will...

In statistics class next week on the last day of class we are all doing our in-class group presentations. There are roughly ten groups that are each giving a five-minute presentation during a 75-minute class period. So far, not so bad. Oh, wait, did I...

Today a calculus student from my Spring 2009 class came to my office hours. He got a D in my class, so he's taking calculus again, but not with me. He says that I explain integration in a way that makes more sense to him than how his current teacher...

After a few years in a row of teaching one of the freshmen seminars for honors students, I think that I'm finally getting it. The guidelines for the seminar were that I had to have the students read a book, discuss it, and write a paper. For the...

We've been told that the university wants to get higher levels of responses to the online course evaluations. I can make that happen. I was planning on dropping some low homework scores, anyway, and I've decided to link the number of dropped homeworks...